National Affairs: Gashouse Finale

Honking motorcades, truckloads of young street sheiks making faces and
tooting horns, brought to a close last week the last of the Purge
primaries, in New York's 16th or "Gashouse" Congressional district,
Manhattan. It had been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with
plenty of mud-slinging at the finish, between two Irishmen alike as two
of Paddy's pigs in outlook except that one of them had been cursed by
Franklin Roosevelt for breaking out of the New
Deal pen and the other had promised to be good.